Valerie Singer, General Manager, AWS Global Education
As General Manager for AWS’s Global Education team, Valerie is responsible for leading strategy and initiatives for Higher Education, Research, K-12, EdTechs, and outcome-based education worldwide. Her Skills to Jobs team enables governments, education systems, and collaborating organizations to deliver skills-based pathways to meet the acute needs of employers around the globe, match skilled job seekers to good-paying jobs, and advance the adoption of cloud-based technology. Cloud Innovation Centers, housed within higher education institutions including Cal Poly and Arizona State University, provide students with hands-on, experiential learning, serve as convenors for digital transformation best practices for peer organizations around the globe, and sponsor the student-led production of relevant, open-source assets for the benefit of the global public sector and nonprofits.
In her over ten-year tenure at AWS, Valerie has held numerous leadership positions, including driving strategic customer engagement within AWS’s Worldwide Public Sector and Industries. Valerie established and led AWS’s public sector global partner team, AWS’s North American commercial partner team, was the leader for teams managing AWS’s largest worldwide partnerships, and incubated AWS’s Aerospace & Satellite Business Group. Valerie established AWS’s national systems integrator program and promoted partner competency development and practice expansion to migrate enterprise-class, large-scale workloads to AWS.
Valerie serves on the board of The Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF), which bridges education-employer partnerships to improve career and academic outcomes for diverse learners. Serving on the board of the World Economic Forum, she engages in shaping global economic growth through skilling and reskilling efforts.
Prior to joining AWS, Valerie held senior positions at Quest Software, Adobe Systems, Oracle Corporation, BEA Systems, and Cisco Systems. She holds a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Maryland and a Master's in Public Administration from the George Washington University.